“He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 11 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.